MOON IN THE 5th HOUSE

This is a very important position of Moon, because this house rules education, thought, capacity for management, and progeny (which means continuance of family tree). Moon is lord of Mind in every human being and thus rules thoughts, desires, ambitions, dejections, disappointments and dissatisfactions in mind as also joy, pleasure, happiness, satisfaction and contentment, sense of fulfilment.

No doubt Moon in 5th house gives concentration in education, doesn't allow mind to divert from regular studies and gives a touch of honesty in Exams, tests, interviews etc. Moon protects against failure at school level, provided there is no change of school. In this particular case, the child takes time and wastes a lot of energy to adjust to the changed atmosphere and get acquainted with fellow-students as well as the teaching system and style in the new school. Because 5th house is in 8th position from 10th house, which rules father, generally a change of school becomes unavoidable owing to change of town or work of a father.

However, the post-school education progresses very well, not involving change of place or town, even if the father has to change, because the individual is grown up to stay in a house or otherwise independently. The individual is able to reach the desired destination in studies.

If Venus is in 5th, or 1st, 4th, 9th, 10th or 11th house, chances for receiving medical education become quite strong, though the higher education in medicine, surgery, pathology, radiology (there are innumerable branches presently) would depend on other stars. If only Venus and Moon are strong in the horoscope, the individual would go in for medicine, and later on in life become a famous physician. There are no doubt certain individuals who, even after good medical education, enter into administrative service or active politics because of stronger and better placement of Sun in the horoscope, including Navamsha chart.

After education, the individual is naturally at the threshold of marriage and getting children. Marriage would depend on a good on the 7th house, lord of the 7th house and its placement in birth chart and Navamsha chart (for boys) and Trinshansha chart (for girls). Unless there is considerable force from the side of Venus, these individuals do not go in for love-based marriage. Because they are very much given to the inner voice of self, they judge the deep thinking and sincerity or showmanship of the opposite party by their own thinking and take their own time to fall into any love affair. Generally they go by the choice of the mother for matrimonial and normally they intend to disagree with the father's choice in general terms.

With regard to getting children, depending on the stars of the spouse, the couple is keen on having children soon and in quick succession, because of considerations regarding upbringing and education of the children. The male individual pays full attention from the pregnancy days to the birth of the child in looking after wife and the baby in the womb. If the individual is female, she herself looks after these matters.

If Moon is in a female Rasi (Taurus, Cancer, Virgo etc), the likely sex of the baby would be female, and if it is in male Rasi (like Aries, Gemini, Leo) the baby might be a son, as the first issue. However this matter depends on the stars of both, husband and wife, and many detailed and minute calculations are involved in predicting the sex of the child in the womb. Since the God Almighty hasn't given 100% "insight" into the future, to any astrologer, no one should claim 100% accuracy about the sex of the baby to be born. In the last few decades of the 20th century, the medical system carried out some tests on the pregnant woman during the 3rd month of pregnancy and predicted the sex of the embryo in the womb. Practical experience has shown that the medical opinion too hasn't proved accurate in several cases!

Further it would help to a certain extent in predicting the sex of the baby in the womb by determining the lord of the 5th house and the Rasi in the 5th house. If the lord of the 5th house is Sun, Mars or Jupiter and that lord too is occupying a male Rasi, the chances are that the baby in the womb is a son. If there are female stars (Mercury, Venus, Saturn and waning Moon) in the 5th house, or any of them own the Rasi in the 5th house and a female Rasi is in the 5th house, the chances are that it is a female embryo in the womb. However, it is advisable to note once for all that it is virtually difficult to predict the sex of the baby in the womb.

Moon protects the pregnancy from miscarriage in the womb, unless the couple indulges in physical relationship and abortion at the most the 7th month. No use in going into detail after the 5th of this delicate topic. Intelligent readers can easily grasp the caution indicated indirectly here.

No use in discussing the number of the progeny, because laws of many countries have put restrictions on the number of progeny, if not directly, at least indirectly. Further number and sex of children depends on the stars of both, wife and husband, and it needs very deep study into the horoscopes of both.

For one reason or the other, irrespective of the education, culture, religion or faith of the individual, he or she becomes interested in spiritualism, in occult science and its usage, and sometimes indulges in using this knowledge in favour of or against other people. But since the individual has constant touch of mercy, chances of severely hurting others would not arise. It is very likely that the individual might adopt spiritualism or occult science and its practice to become very rich, beyond the normal source of earnings and income. If the individual has any planet in the 12th house in the birth chart, there are strong chances of adverse results too from this kind of practice and usage to the individual or his or her spouse or children or any other member of the immediate family. Normally the individual has some strict ideology, but the greed for more and more money makes him or her blind (at least for sometime) to ideology

Barring the above weakness, the individual would be a great devotee of God Almighty, would read religious scripts of own faith or religion, and follow the path of virtuous living, with modest behaviour to one and all.

In the normal course of life, the individual has chances of being very well possessed, resourceful for possessing all comforts and luxuries of life for self and the family. But once greed enters into the mind of an individual, no restraint and restriction stand in the way of this kind of activity.

Because Moon in 5th house would have direct drishti in the 11th house (which rules income), the individual would have satisfactory standard of income and earnings, and stands to receive rich gifts from the opposite sex too, without adversely affecting the moral character. The individual gains knowledge about hidden money or jewellery ornaments or other costly possessions of mother, and in the long run stands to benefit therefrom to the exclusion of other claimants to it.

Another appreciable quality that Moon bestows on the individual is of full concentration on work on hand, including on matters related to management of any business, office, industrial venture, organisation outside the individual’s work orbit.

These individuals maintain friendship in all sincerity, and do not mind extending help or support to the friend in hour of need, but they do judge whether the need is real, and what is the arena of the need.

If the individual doesn’t migrate to another state or country, he or she is often desirous of sending the progeny, or at least one of them, to another country for education or better chances of career and income, and sometimes marriage too. Migration of self to a foreign country would depend on other stars of self, on the Rasi in the 5th house and lord of the 5th house and placement of that lord and inter-relationship between that lord of 5th house and Moon in the 5th house.

Sometimes, stars of the spouse might also help or lead both the spouse and the individual to a foreign country for regular or permanent settlement there.

And as regards the question of sending one child or all children, one-by-one, abroad for education or better career or sometimes marriage too for purposes of Visa etc. it would depend on the child’s own stars. The parents’ stars would render only side support.

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